Beethoven's Fidelio Conducted by Maazel

Some exciting things in this live recording from Salzburg, but Maazel tends to sabotage the enterprise by adopting weird and inappropriate tempos, and the total effect is too uneven to recommend.

Michael Tanner

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2

Michael Tanner

Published: May 16, 2017 at 2:36 pm

COMPOSERS: Beethoven
LABELS: Orfeo
ALBUM TITLE: Beethoven
WORKS: Fidelio
PERFORMER: Krause, Adam, King, Marton, Haugland, Watson, Moser; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Wiener Philharmonic/Maazel
CATALOGUE NO: C 908 152 l (1983)

Some exciting things in this live recording from Salzburg, but Maazel tends to sabotage the enterprise by adopting weird and inappropriate tempos, and the total effect is too uneven to recommend.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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